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By Jack Joseph Smith

Clensed This is the way we wanted the Earth as born Being no other, just before cause we came Hard rock scattered with what we would, rid ourselves of; there, where no line, is through the ovel, no curve noticed, before the beyond, We have desired our flesh in ashes, equally, balancing, even suggesting a slightness toward, the almost as good in this Earth, as the slaughter Yes; while says age sight can get to the magical rocks "While as children, we were all the saint with the sword" Above the Bible, absolutely in the clouds, this worship, decending as all others trick of Christ, again equally, with those of peace, yes quick and dence, is the population of the mind; just for the is the slashing of the obstacle for that only view, of thyself

Original Scan

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AI Interpretation

GPT

This revised 'Clensed' page revisits purification, violence, sacred height, and self-regard in a more fragmented register.

The page feels like a reworked argument rather than a clean draft. That roughness suits the poem because it is already about damage, cleansing, and unstable vision.

Claude

A late consolidation of Clensed. This is the way we wanted the Earth as born, no line through the oval, no curve noticed before the beyond. The flesh in ashes balanced toward being almost as good as the slaughter. Children as saints with the sword. Descending as all others' trick of Christ. For that only view of thyself. The poem closes on a knot of self-regard.